Cousin Marriage and Islām
Cousin Marriage and Islām. Answering a Few Doubts
Marrying your first-cousin can only cause 4-7% birth defects, compared to 3-4% chance already in distantly related marriages.
This 4-7% is the exact level of birth defect chance, of baby being born out of ≤35 years old distantly related woman, or woman consuming alcohol etc.
leading expert on consanguinity Alan Bittles and others, have pointed out the Inconsistency to legislate against such marriages.
He also argued,
children being born with genetic disorder happens alot among distantly married people, as well, but they get aborted.
argues, laws against consanguinity are anochronistic and lack scientific foundation.
He argues, there are many great benefits of consanguinity marriage, like socio-economic, less dowry, honor, ties of kinship etc.
Dr. Arno G. Motulsky, who also was a leading figure in medical genetics for more than six decades, states at minimum there are 93% chances of first-cousins marriage child being totally perfect.
Some people use the “Rat-children” or Shah Dola, from Pakistan, to show it’s the result of consanguinity,
While in reality their heads are purposely modified using iron ring, since childhood by the extreme deviant ignorant shias and ignorant darwesh, due to their innovative practices at shrines.
Having said that, Pakistan people without a doubt are obsessed with cousin marriages consecutively, which is nowhere encouraged in Islām.
The great companion of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and Imām al-Shāfiʿī spoke against it.
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Alot early Scholars of the Muslims, argued marrying woman who’s not relative to you, to be recommended.
Imām al-Mirdāwi says,
“It is recommended to choose a woman who is religiously committed and fertile, a virgin of good lineage, who is not a relative”
In “Maṭālib ūlī al-Nuhā”, the above statement is explained as,
***“A non-relative, because her children will have better characteristics, and because there is no guarantee that they will not separate, which in the case of marriage to a relative would lead to severing of the ties of kinship, which we are enjoined to uphold.”
Imām al-Nawawī said,
“It is recommend to choose a religious virgin, who is of good lineage, but is not a close relative
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī said in his Explanation of the above quote,
” ‘Not a close relativeʼ means a non-relative or a distant relative. The one who is distantly related is better than one who is not related at all.”
Another thing to point is, in Islām cousins are not Mahram to you. You have to segregate and cover yourself from them.
It’s so weird to free-mix with your cousins, and act siblings whole life and suddenly get married.
Bhai whole life, to “Bae” in one night? 😋
@here
Cousin-Marriage was practiced throughout history by 80%, and wasn’t a taboo, until just recently. Many prominent western figures married their first or second cousin including,
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
H.G. Wells
John C Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
John Adams
Rudy Giuliani⚡️
Westerners morality and science keep changing.
Do you know which Marriage by agreement cause the most diseases? Gay Marriage.
But the Westerners will cancel you if you don’t support this disgusting unscientific disaster.
#『⚛』lgbt
Additions
al-Mawardi stated:
They (Arabs) would prefer marrying distant strangers, believing that this would produce offspring who were nobler and more good looking in appearance. They would avoid marrying within close relatives, seeing it as harmful to the child’s appearance and nobility
[Adab ad-Din wa ad-Duniya p. 159]
al-Ghazali:
“The eighth [recommended trait in choosing a wife] is that she should not be from close relatives, because this refuces desire… (He quotes a Weak Hadith)…
..For desire is stirred by the strength of perception through sight and touch and this perception is stronger when the something is unfamiliar and new. As for something familiar, which one have already seen since long, the senses grow dull in fully perceiving it and being affected by it, and thus desire is not aroused by it.”
Imam Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali said:
He should choose someone unrelated, for her children will be more intelligent. Hence it was said: Marry non-relatives so that you will not have weak children. One of them said: The children of non-relatives are intelligent and the children of cousins are more resilient. Moreover, there is no guarantee that enmity will not develop in the marriage, which could end in divorce, and if the wife is a relative, that may lead to severing ties of kinship, which we are enjoined to uphold.”
[Al-Mughni 9/512]
bn Qudamah al-Maqdisi also mentions in another book:
“It is Mustahabb (recommended) to choose a woman who is religiously committed and fertile, a virgin of good lineage who is Not a relative.”
[Al-Muqni’ page. 301]
Same is mentioned in Muntaha al-Iradat by Ibn Najjar al-futuhi
Imam al-Buhuti:
(“al-ajnabiyyah/unrelated woman”) because her child will be more noble, and because he cannot be certain that divorce will not occur, which combined with the distant kinship could lead to severing of ties.
[Sharh Muntaha al-Iradat]
Imam Mari’ al-Karmi mentions same that it is recommended to marry someone who is unrelated
[Dalil al-Talib p.275]
To Conclude, Being Obsessed with Consanguinity Generation after Generation, like the Pakistanis, is Not Recommended
Bhai whole life, is not permissible
Consanguinity defects are exaggerated
Marrying cousin is permissible, if you hate the legislation itself you are an Apostate.